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Why Start A Food Blog? And Can You Make Money Out Of It? Part II

January 8, 2012
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This post is following on from Part I here. Blog Envy & The Godivala Syndrome If you want to start one, do it, it’s free, make it your own but be prepared to put the hours in if you want it to have a certain regularity, it really does not feed itself. I’ve had moments [...]

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Why Start A Food Blog? And Can You Make Money Out Of It? Part I

January 5, 2012
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Why?  Because you want to. And the next answer is no, you can’t make money out of a food blog, or to be more precise, you can’t make a living directly.  Not as things are, whether it will change or not, that I don’t know. I’ve been blogging for just over 2 years and in [...]

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Christmas Day 2011

December 26, 2011
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Today, boxing day, is the real Christmas day for a mum with small kids I think.  I get to do this, catch up with favourite blogs, look through my new cookery books and have some time to read. This year’s Christmas was all about the 4 year old, the perfect age for the magic of [...]

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Progress of Utility Room Baking Space

November 2, 2011
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Since I’ve been back from France there has been some progress in turning what was our dumping space garage into a proper utility room with baking space for me. These photos were taken last week, above photo a view into the garden. Below the door leads into Bikerboy’s now very tiny garage that barely fits [...]

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Farmers’ Markets Are So Expensive

August 21, 2011
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If you ask me what my favourite pastime is apart from eating it’s wondering around food markets, it’s easy to do this on the Continent.  The market is a familiar place for me.  This morning after brunch in central London I was very close to the Marylebone High Street farmers’ market and couldn’t resist spending [...]

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Breakfast this Morning at Princi – Soho

July 31, 2011
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After being told I should try the bread at Princi in Soho, London we decided to have breakfast there this morning.  We’ve been having Sunday breakfast in different places with the 4 year old over the last few weeks.  This Sunday before breakfast we wanted to drive past Big Ben to show her how big [...]

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Gregoire Michaud – Talented Chef, Good All-round Guy

July 28, 2011
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After knowing Gregoire for months through twitter and blogging I finally met him and his gorgeous family this afternoon as he was passing through London on the way to his holidaying home in Switzerland.  Gregoire is the pastry chef at the Four Season’s Hotel in Hong Kong, a cookery author and a blogger, his blog [...]

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How to Become a Baker Overnight

July 27, 2011
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Last week I took a jump at pretending I was a baker for a few nights.  Found myself helping someone out briefly in their cafe because their baker/pastry chef never turned up for the job.  There I was 24hrs later getting up at 4.30am for a 5 o’clock start producing yeast loaves for an order [...]

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Happy Birthday! My 3 year old Turns 4

July 18, 2011
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My 3 year old is not longer three and today according to her she’s a “big girl” turning four.  Another milestone passes.  Yesterday she had her party with her nursery friends, she had such a lovely day.  When she finally went to bed she fell asleep talking midflow and very unlike her slept for 12 [...]

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Last Night – Grown Ups Behaving like Kids

May 22, 2011

Last night we met up with friends we hadn’t been out with together since our crazy wedding last summer.  We had a great evening, enjoyed the food and wine but most of all the company, so much so we ended acting like kids by the end of the evening.  In the video clip below is [...]

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Rodrigo y Gabriela and the Wannabe Guitarist

May 16, 2011
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I’m in love with Gabriela.  Not in the Bikerboy’s wishful thinking kind of way.  I’m in love with her talent.  Gabriela Quintero, half of the duo with Rodrigo Sanchez is this little package that possesses an incredible big talent.  She plays the rhythm guitar and Rodrigo plays the lead guitar.  Before I start to wax [...]

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Happy Sweet 16th Birthday

March 22, 2011
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Today is the oldest’s 16th birthday and I promise not to make it about how old that makes me feel.  My oldest has had to bear not only the attention her younger siblings take up through being younger but because of their illnesses.  She’s helped out with her allergy and epileptic  sister and her cerebral palsy sister, [...]

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John in Orthotics – the most important person in my 3 year old’s life

February 28, 2011
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  Today we paid a visit to see John from the orthotics department in my local hospital.  The 3 year old needs new inserts in her shoes.   Her old ones designed, hand-molded and hand-made by John last September are getting too small.  She really enjoys her visits to see John and makes the constant monotonous [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day – even to all you grouchy people

February 14, 2011
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It’s been weeks now since all over twitter and forums they are those who have a problem with valentine’s day voicing their opinions along the lines of how terrible it is to have a forced day, such a commercial day telling one how to be romantic.  Yes…I can understand that point of view and even [...]

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Feliz Ano Novo – Happy New Year

January 1, 2011
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Happy New Year to everyone.  We’re glad to see the back of 2010 and are looking forward to a healthier 2011.  Two thousand and ten was the year of the Wedding, for us everything this year has been over-showed by the diagnosis of the 3 yr old and for that reason we want to look ahead [...]

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